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Monday, December 19, 2005

Using Film-Making Techniques to Synthesize Compelling Video Shows from Consumer Photographs

This is what I worked on last year.

"We describe a software architecture that combines storytelling and cinematographic techniques to guide consumers in creating compelling video shows from their photographs. The software implementation of this architecture could run in cameras, consumer appliances, PCs, or web services."

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Friday, December 16, 2005

Visited States

Thanks to Visited States and Visited Countries for these maps of all the U.S. States and countries I have visited.

I still have a lot of the world to see!

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Wednesday, December 14, 2005

Hovering

Hovering
Originally uploaded by Tolka Rover.

I was cleaning out my hard drive today and I discovered this photo that had fallen through the cracks. It is some kind of bird of prey hovering above my house during the summer.

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Thursday, December 08, 2005

War, "The Price of Freedom"?

War, "The Price of Freedom"?
Originally uploaded by Tolka Rover.

The slogan for the "Americans at War" exhibition at the National Museum of American History is a bit simplistic. The wars covered in the exhibit included ones that were not really about freedom: the Spanish American war which was mostly about extending American colonialism, the Mexican war which was about westward expansion, and the Indian wars which were at best ethnic cleansing, and at worst genocide. As for the Vietnam War and the current Iraq war, let's say that opinions differ on whether those were about freedom. Still the exhibit itself was in general well presented and is worth seeing.

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